Digital Annotations and the Reclusive Wife
Frances as...
retiring
reclusive
plainly disliked prescribed socializing
- Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man, 324
- Trudy Krisher, Fanny Seward: A Life, 80-81
Wednesday we invited Isaacs people and Mr & Mrs Lucas & Miss Lord to tea. Marthy Mrs Yates and Isaac and Mr Lucas and Miss Lord came - it is so long since I have been in society that I found it quite a task to entertain even these few
-Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, June 11, 1837
... “A man or
woman waits in the hall to see Mrs S–” or “a gentleman in the parlour” “some ladies in the parlour” ... – I feel half the time so dizzy and bewildered that I am obliged to sit down and put my hands to my head before I am able to collect my thoughts.
–Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 17, 1841
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